Anyone familiar with this? My local Fairway market has some (bulk,
chopped into plastic-wrapped ~1 pound blocks). It's just labeled Maragda
70% cacao, and is evidently from Spain.

How does it stand, qualitywise?

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at Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:36:45 GMT in <heimdall-F413B6.17364521112004
@individual.net>, lid (Scott) wrote :

>Anyone familiar with this? My local Fairway market has some (bulk,
>chopped into plastic-wrapped ~1 pound blocks). It's just labeled Maragda
>70% cacao, and is evidently from Spain.
>
>How does it stand, qualitywise?
>

It's from Chocovic, IMHO perhaps the best chocolate manufacturer in Spain.
Currently they're famous especially for "Origen Unico" - the single-
varietal chocolates Ocumare, Guyave, and Guaranda. Maragda is a blend
rather than a single varietal, but it is nevertheless excellent. It's got a
fruity flavour reminicent of currents, never aggressive. In fact, I think
it might be slightly better than the Origen Unico chocolates. There are a
few 70% blends that are better still from Cluizel, Valrhona, Dolfin,
Nestle, and Cote D'Or, but that's about it for better blended chocolates at
that percentage. So I would buy it.
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at Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:36:45 GMT in <heimdall-F413B6.17364521112004
@individual.net>, lid (Scott) wrote :

>Anyone familiar with this? My local Fairway market has some (bulk,
>chopped into plastic-wrapped ~1 pound blocks). It's just labeled Maragda
>70% cacao, and is evidently from Spain.
>
>How does it stand, qualitywise?
>

It's from Chocovic, IMHO perhaps the best chocolate manufacturer in Spain.
Currently they're famous especially for "Origen Unico" - the single-
varietal chocolates Ocumare, Guyave, and Guaranda. Maragda is a blend
rather than a single varietal, but it is nevertheless excellent. It's got a
fruity flavour reminicent of currents, never aggressive. In fact, I think
it might be slightly better than the Origen Unico chocolates. There are a
few 70% blends that are better still from Cluizel, Valrhona, Dolfin,
Nestle, and Cote D'Or, but that's about it for better blended chocolates at
that percentage. So I would buy it.
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Alex Rast

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